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South Asia | Bangladesh | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Sector and Enterprise Development

The goal of AFIP is that small farmers throughout Bangladesh have ready access to quality planting material of desired varieties of agroforestry species - as a result of a systematic national programme of QPM development and distribution involving key stakeholders'. Agroforestry - particularly the mixed cultivation of a wide variety of trees and crops (fruit trees, timber trees, bamboo, vegetables, spices, medicinal plants) in and around homesteads - is of immense importance to the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers in Bangladesh, who represent over 50 % of the total rural population and for whom the homestead constitutes the main resource base for their livelihoods.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Private Sector and Enterprise Development

This is a business advocacy programme. The Programme has a catalytic effect, as it works to link the demand and supply sides of improved business environment. It works with Private Sector Organisations, to build sustainable capacity, and credibility to facilitate advocacy with Government and policy makers.

Cambodia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

CAVAC’s goal is to accelerate growth in the value of agricultural production and smallholder incomes in selected provinces (Kampong Thom, Takeo and Kampot) through improved productivity of rice-based farming systems. Under CAVAC’s Research and Extension component, co-funded by AusAID and ACIAR, will: fund and manage programs of priority research activities that address constraints in selected value chains; implement a farmer extension program among participating water user and agribusiness groups; enhance the capacity of extension providers to transfer improved technologies and information to farmers; develop and implement a partnership program linking researchers, extensionists, farmers and agribusiness; assist in sustaining the operational capacity of the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Private Sector and Enterprise Development

The programme has identified strategic clusters which have significant potential for economic growth in Tanzania. Using the comprehensive cluster approach, it mobilizes stakeholders in those clusters and encourages “buy-in”; rationalises and responds to their demands; addresses gaps in current supply of services in the cluster; and maintains focus on catalytic actions throughout the supply chain; and it has the flexibility and capability to address constraints all along the chain from production through processing to the end consumer.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Rural Development and Livelihoods

This Programme works with different players in the market chain, to improve productivity and market linkages between producer groups, input dealers and agro-processors. The programme aims to catalyse and incentivise market for inputs, rice and sesame products and agriculture extension services.

Europe and Central Asia | Georgia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Livestock and Veterinary Services

Alliances is focused on improving the beef and dairy sub-sectors in 5 main areas. Alliances implements systemic interventions aimed at strengthening the provision of services, information and inputs as well as improving capacity and organization of the value chain. To achieve this, Alliances is working with: service providers, trainers & extension providers, information providers, farmers groups, processors of meat and milk, traders, wholesalers & intermediaries. The project facilitates systemic changes in the livestock market by building up the capacity of service providers in 5 intervention areas: Food safety and hygiene; Animal nutrition; Animal breeding; Market access and terms of trade; Disaster risk management.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria | Business Enabling Environment

ENABLE’s goal is to improve the policy and regulatory environment for business in Nigeria. It employs an innovative market systems approach, seeking to facilitate systemic change in the market for business environment reform, by addressing the underlying causes (rather than just the symptoms) of weakness in the market system.

South Asia | Sri Lanka | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Enterprise for Pro-poor Growth, or Enter-Growth for short, is a project of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), and the Ministry of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion. Its goal was to contribute to pro-poor economic growth and quality employment for women and men, through an integrated programme for development of micro and small enterprises.

Europe and Central Asia | Kosovo

While skills development is one side of the youth labour market and it contributes towards the increased employability, additional concrete measures are needed in Kosovo to address the access of the skilled youth to the labour market. Therefore SDC decided to enlarge its contribution in the field of youth employability by starting this new program that would facilitate the transition of young women and men from education to employment.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Kenya | Banking and Financial Services

The Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust was established in early 2005 to support the development of financial markets in Kenya as a means to stimulate wealth creation and reduce poverty. It operates as an independent Trust under the supervision of professional trustees, with policy guidance from a programme investment committee.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Banking and Financial Services

The overall aim of the Trust is to provide greater access for more people to engage with the financial system throughout Tanzania. Our focus is entirely on financial sector deepening. We support the three pillars of financial sector development: expanding the scale and viability of financial institutions and related transactions; financial sector infrastructure, especially the crucial task of capacity-building; and the policy, legal and regulatory framework.

Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa | United Kingdom | Banking and Financial Services

FinMark Trust is a non-profit independent trust, funded primarily by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and was established in March 2002. FinMark Trust's purpose is ‘Making financial markets work for the poor, by promoting financial inclusion and regional financial integration'. It does this by conducting research to identify the systemic constraints that prevent financial markets from reaching out to these consumers and by advocating for change on the basis of research findings. Thus, FinMark Trust has a catalytic role, driven by its purpose to start processes of change that ultimately lead to the development of inclusive financial systems that can benefit all consumers.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

Having identified the potential of Nigeria's meat and leather industry to contribute to growth, employment and improved incomes, the GEMS1 Meat and Leather Project will promote meat and leather industry competetiveness in Kano, Kaduna and Lagos. The project will identify the underlying constraints to compettiveness inthe meat and leather industry in these selected states. It will work with industry actors-business and reform-minded government agencies supporting the industry-to identify how market systems can be improved to overcome these contraints. The project team will identify and work with suitable business partners to pilot interventions witht he potential to improve market systems in both industries.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria | Infrastructure, Construction and Transport

Coffey International Development manages the Construction and Real Estate (GEMS2) component of the joint DFID / World Bank Growth, Employment and Markets in States (GEMS) programme in Nigeria. GEMS2 applies the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach. This is the first time the M4P approach has been applied to the construction and real estate sector. The project aims to create 20,000 employment and income opportunities for people working in the built environment.

Work commenced in May 2010 with a six month inception phase when detailed research and analysis was undertaken to identify potential intervention areas. A variety of studies, stakeholder meetings, interviews, team workshops and consultations were conducted in order to move from broad awareness to sharper understanding of systemic constraints to be addressed by project interventions. In doing so, the project has followed a diagnostic process as suggested by the M4P approach. The project has initiated in Lagos and will be rolled out to Kano, Kaduna and Abuja during 2011.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

The assignment will consolidate and deepen the progress achieved by the existing World Bank / DFID funded Investment Climate Programme (ICP), which is working in the same four focal states. The GEMS programme will address issues relating to land and tax administration and investment promotion and facilitation. Furthermore, it will provide a flexible facility to respond to new opportunities to reduce barriers to investment in the four states, other states or at the federal level, as and when priorities emerge and it becomes clear that there is real commitment and capability to change within the public sector.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

GEMS4 seeks to improve income and employment opportunities within Nigeria’s wholesale and retail sector, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable. Specifically, the project aims to create and sustain 10,000 full time jobs and increase incomes for 500,000 people within the sector. Although Nigeria’s wholesale and retail sector is growing quickly, inefficiencies within the distribution chain have resulted in lower prices for producers, lower wages for employers, lower profits for businesses and a higher cost of living for consumers.

GEMS4 is working to increase local capacity and change market incentives so that the wholesale and retail sector better meets the long-term needs of the poor.

South Asia | Bangladesh | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Business Enabling Environment, Tourism and Hospitality

The goal of Katalyst Phase II is to increase employment and incomes in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh through braod-based and sustainable pro-poor growth. Its purpose is to increase the competitiveness of micro, small and medium enterprises through market improvements.
The programme is funded by CIDA, DFID, SDC and EKN (Netherlands) and implemented by SwissContact.

Europe and Central Asia | Armenia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Livestock and Veterinary Services

The aim of this project is to increase dairy farmers’ access to formal markets by facilitating their links with the buyers. It increased farmers' interest to invest in dairy farming. The project also works to improve other support services (input supply, breeding, veterinary, extension, access to financing) by identifying and removing existing constraints in the market system. By working in a market oriented manner, avoiding building dependence and effectively focusing on long term sustainability, SDA achieved meaningful change within the rural dairy market in Southern Armenia.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Zambia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Banking and Financial Services

Musika’s Making Agricultural Markets Work for Zambia programme aims to provide world-class business development services to Zambia’s agricultural markets in order to deepen and broaden the impact of economic growth to all levels of rural society. Musika’s approach focuses on the Zambian markets that show the greatest opportunity for pro-poor growth.

South Asia | Viet Nam

Making Markets Work Better for the Poor, Phase 2 is funded by the Asian Development Bank and the UK Department for International Development and aims to increase participation of the poor in three thematic areas – public private partnership in infrastructure services, value chains, and private sector employment. The project has three main components. The Action Research Funding Component, implemented through the Policy Action Research Unit (PARU), provides the instrument for addressing government failure. The Vietnam Challenge Fund (VCF) implemented through a specialised unit within the M4P2 project provides the instrument for engaging with the private sector to innovate business models and technologies that will improve pro-poor outcomes. The Capacity Building Component is under the direct control of the Foreign Economic Relations Department (FERD) of MPI with assistance from the Consulting Team.

Europe and Central Asia | Bosnia And Herzegovina | Private Sector and Enterprise Development

SDC’s interventions in the youth employment field have so far been targeting the supply side of the labour market in Bosnia and Herzegovina (increasing the employability of young people) and the matching between demand and supply (mainly by strengthening the capacities of the public employment services). It is clear however that youth unemployment in BiH can only be effectively and sustainably combated if the necessary preconditions for increasing the number of new vacancies are created. The main aim of the “Market Makers” programme is therefore to promote the creation of decent job opportunities for young women and men in BiH.

Europe and Central Asia | Armenia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

The Markets for Meghri project in Armenia supports small-scale producers of fig, pomegranate and persimmon to have an increased and sustainable income through higher profitability of production and improved access to markets. The project has five areas of interventions:
1. Enhancing productivity through improved inputs and skills for farmers;
2. Enhancing productivity through developing nurseries;
3. Enhancing productivity through farm business management skills and investment;
4. Increasing value of high quality fresh fruit for farmers; and
5. Increasing demand for low quality fruit through processing.

Europe and Central Asia | Armenia | Private Sector and Enterprise Development

The overall goal of the programme is to contribute to poverty alleviation in the Meghri region of Armenia, more specifically the goal is formulated as “active men and women small-scale horticultural producers, processors and traders in Meghri have increased their production and profitability and thereby generate increased and sustainable income.” Increased income and employment opportunities at the household level are the result of growth in the horticultural sector and improved access to services.

South Asia | India | Banking and Financial Services

PSIG aims to improve access to financial services in the poorest and least penetrated districts in the poorest states in India. The flow of risk capital to the poorest states for enterprise development is 20 times lower than the average for all of India. PSIG therefore also aims to promote commercially viable but socially responsible enterprises in these states by providing them with access to Risk Capital.

Europe and Central Asia | Serbia | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Sector and Enterprise Development, Tourism and Hospitality

The project aims at improving employment and income opportunities in the Jablanica and Pcinja regions of South Serbia by stimulating and facilitating systemic change in key sectors that leads to economic growth and improved access to markets and services. In doing so, the project uses a market development approach ("Making Markets Work for the Poor” or "M4P”) as its project rationale, focusing on sustainable change in supporting functions and rules that constitute the wider system around markets. Three sectors will be selected for interventions during the inception phase, all three which play a significant role as generator of income and employment in the region.

Europe and Central Asia | Serbia | Private Sector and Enterprise Development, Tourism and Hospitality

The project aims at improving employment and income opportunities in the Zlatibor region of Southwest Serbia by stimulating and facilitating systemic change in key sectors that leads to economic growth and improved access to markets and services. In doing so, the project uses a market development approach ("Making Markets Work for the Poor” or "M4P”) as its project rationale, focussing on sustainable change in supporting functions and rules that constitute the wider system around markets. Three sectors are being targetted: tourism, fruits and dairy/meat – all three of which play a significant role as generator of income and employment in the region.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Mozambique | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

This project will reduce poverty in northern Mozambique by promoting private sector development, specifically by increasing the economic involvement of the poor in select agricultural value chains. It is the intention to base the project on the principles of “making markets work for the poor” (M4P).

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets (PrOpCom) is an innovative project funded by DFID to facilitate functionality and efficiency of Nigerian commodity and service markets in such a way as to assure these markets benefit the poor. PrOpCom’s goal is to improve livelihoods by facilitating growth and pro-poor outcomes in commodity and service markets and to contribute to the overarching (DFID/Nigeria) goal of poverty alleviation in support of NEEDS and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Rwanda | Energy

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Our aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for investment support for their new and innovative business ideas in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Livestock and Veterinary Services

The Rural Livelihoods Development Program is located in four poverty-stricken semi-arid regions of Central Tanzania and aims at reducing rural poverty by linking the poor with markets and increasing their income. RLDP's vision is that poor rural households and communities participate in the market economy, improve the material livelihood, and withstand economic shocks by employing their assets and potentials.

South Asia | Nepal | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Samarth-NMDP is a DFID-funded rural market development programme that aims to reduce poverty in Nepal by increasing incomes of smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs. The programme works to improving the underlying pro-poor performance of rural sectors, leading to opportunities for better access and improved growth for poor and disadvantaged people.
Mercy Corps Nepal, as part of the Samarth programme, will work to catalyse systemic changes in the ginger sub-sector that will lead to improved market access and growth opportunities for smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs. The project adopts the “Making Markets for the Poor” (M4P) approach that focuses on causes rather than symptoms, will be facilitative and will seek systemic change. This approach will address the major systemic constraints existing within the ginger market system and bring about a systems change that will ultimately increase farmers’ income.

South Asia | Bangladesh | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Samriddhi, meaning "prosperity" in Bangla aims at contributing to sustainable well-being and resilience of poor and extreme poor households of Rajshahi Division and Sunamganj District through social and economic empowerment. The programme works towards a post-project situation where roles and responsibilities are institutionalised and performed by market system actors in a sustainable manner without further external project support. The current phase will focus on the consolidation and replication of the most relevant existing interventions, on an improved poverty orientation and a more systemic approach towards local market systems.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Uganda | Media

SEMA is a Small Enterprise Development project that also focuses on building the capacity of the commercial mass media to provide business information, platforms for debate on business issues and a channel for delivery of Business Advisory Services.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Private Sector and Enterprise Development

This programme make agribusiness market systems work better for the poor in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa by enticing the private sector to invest in projects that will include the poor as employees, contract farmers, outgrowers, subcontractors, suppliers and consumers.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Burundi | Trade

TradeMark East Africa is a not for profit company which aims to promote regional trade and economic integration in East Africa (Burundi, Kenya , Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda).TMEA supports the EAC Secretariat, EAC Partner State governments, business and civil society organisations to take forward and benefit from the process of economic integration in East Africa.